Who first thought of the “galactic network?”

J. C. R. Licklider first envisioned a “Galactic Network,” a globally interconnected set of computers through which people could access information and communicate. His idea helped inspire later work on computer networking. Sergey Brin co-founded Google, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, and DARPA funded important networking research.

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